A psychophysical evaluation of inverse tone mapping techniques

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-25

  Banterle, Francesco ^a   Ledda, Patrick ^a   Debattista, Kurt ^a   Bloj, Marina ^b   Artusi, Alessandro ^a   Chalmers, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High dynamic range imaging; Inverse tone mapping; Tone mapping

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; LIGHTING; MAPPING;

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGING; IMAGE-BASED LIGHTING; INVERSE TONE MAPPINGS; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EVALUATION; PSYCHOPHYSICAL STUDIES; TONE MAPPING;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 60849137889     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01176.x     Document Type: Article

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